Rivers School Wins Shell Quiz Competition

Rivers School Wins Shell Quiz Competition

Two community secondary schools in Rivers State have emerged winner and first runner-up of the 2019 Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Joint Venture’s Environment Awareness Quiz Competition for community secondary schools in the Land Hub Operations areas of Imo, Abia and Rivers states.
Community Secondary School, Aleto, Eleme Local Government Area in Rivers State, emerged overall winner of the competition, while Community Secondary School, Rumuekini, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Rivers State; Secondary Commercial School, Assa, Imo State; and Community Secondary School, Ndele, Emohua Local Government Area in Rivers State, emerged 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions, respectively, from 150 community secondary schools across Rivers, Imo and Abia states who began the competition with written tests in July, 2019.
The SPDC General Manager, External Relations, Mr. Igo Weli, described all the participants as winners, and added that, “The students’ resolve to preach support for the environment align with SPDC’s objectives for starting this competition.
“We seek to raise a generation of youth who would imbibe positive environment management culture, attitude and lifestyle and encourage other youths to join the efforts against pipeline vandalism, crude theft, encroachment on SPDC JV facilities and other illegal activities in their communities. We wish to inspire students’ intellectualism while creating change agents for the society”, he noted.
Weli also announced the award of SPDC JV Secondary School scholarships to the eight students who competed in the finals in addition to their winners’ prizes.
After emerging successfully in the quiz competition which questions covered Mathematics, English Language, General Science and Environmental Awareness with focus on pipeline vandalism, pollution, encroachment, indiscriminate dumping of refuse and bush burning, the students won various prizes for their schools and themselves, including trophies, laptops, desk top computers, books for their school libraries and other gifts.
Previous winners of the event are debut winner Community Secondary School, Elelenwo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State; with Owaza Community Secondary School in Abia State, winning back-to-back edition.

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Futures fell as much as 4.5% in New York to the lowest since 2002.
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Stockpiles are rising everywhere and weakening key physical market gauges. New York oil futures moved deeper into contango, signaling an expanding glut, while swap prices indicate North Sea cargoes are trading at bumper discounts.
Oil has lost about two-thirds of its value this year as countries extend their coronavirus lockdowns, death tolls mount around the world and unemployment explodes in America.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the global economy will shrink 3% this year, a signal that energy demand may remain weak, while the IEA is warning that the worst may be yet to come.
“We may see further downward pressure on prices in coming days and weeks,” IEA Executive Director, Fatih Birol, said.
The IEA said consumption in April will fall by almost a third to the lowest level since 1995, and make this year the worst in the history of the oil market.
Despite OPEC+’s efforts to balance supply, global inventories will accumulate by 12 million barrels a day in the first half of the year and “overwhelm the logistics of the oil industry” in the coming weeks, it warned.
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NUPENG Lauds Members Over Petrol Supply Amid Lockdown

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The union, however, decried the harassment and intimidation of oil company workers by security agents, calling on oil companies and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to provide adequate security passes for the workers.
NUPENG in a statement by its President and General Secretary, Prince Williams Akporeha and Olawale Afolabi, respectively, said petroleum tanker drivers, petrol station workers, petroleum products depot workers, oil and gas suppliers, and liquefied petroleum gas retailers, had made NUPENG and the entire labour movement proud as they moved through difficult and dangerous situations to ensure fuel supply to Nigerians.
The statement read in part: “The leadership of NUPENG has reviewed the roles of our members in the frontline in this critical period as Nigerians fight to contain the spread of the deadly and contagious coronavirus pandemic and we are proud to say our members on essential services have made us proud.
“In fact, not only have they made NUPENG and the United Labour Congress of Nigeria proud, our petroleum tanker drivers and others have made the entire labour movement proud by continuing to ensure uninterrupted supply of petroleum products to every nooks and crannies of the country despite the difficult and sometimes, dangerous situations as most states across the country are on lockdown.
“Once again, we appeal to state governments, security agents and Nigerians in general to cooperate with members of our unions who are risking their lives to provide essential services in the nation.”
NUPENG also appealed to corporate organisations to provide sanitisers and other safety kits to members of the union on essential services, to protect them and members of their families.
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Kyari disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, shortly after a closed door meeting between the NNPC team, Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman and Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Mohammed.
“Actually the Federal Government has made payment of over N200 billion for power in the last 23 days and this will go a long way to ensure that issues around power supply are addressed.
“We will work as a team to ensure that all issues are settled”, he said.
Kyari said that the team was in the Ministry of Power to inform the minister that in the last one or two months and particularly during the COVID-19 period, NNPC has increased gas supply to the power sector.
According to him, there will be significant improvement in power generation in all Federal Government and associated power facilities.
“This also means that Nigerians will get better access to power during this lockdown period and going forward.
“There are issues around power supply process and we have discussed most of them and we are moving as a team to make sure that we resolve issues around payment and evacuation.
“We are very confident that this will get the desired result. We will visit some power plants tomorrow to make sure that we sort out any issue to ensure that Nigerians have access to better power,” he said.
He said that the minister was very clear on what was to be done to improve power supply.
“We will make sure this becomes transparent and obvious to all Nigerians,” he said.
On his part, TCN Managing Director, Mr Usman Mohammed said that the meeting was to ensure that there was constant supply of power as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mohammed said that the President has directed that there should be constant power supply to the people during the COVID-19 lockdown.
“This is why this meeting was conveyed by the Minister of Power to discuss supply of gas to the power plants.
“This is very important, before now, we have been discussing with NNPC, of course there is gas availability in the market but there are several power plants that don’t have gas and that is a big problem for us.
“With this meeting where the minister prevailed that NNPC should assist in suppling gas to the power plants, we believe that will have steady and sustainable power supply going forward especially during the COVID-19 lockdown, “ he said.